Specifications

Specifications include,
but are not limited to:The City of Olympia seeks
a parking consultant to assist in developing a
10 year strategic plan forthe Citys Parking
System. The primary focus of this effort is the
Citys downtown as described onthe attached map.
The Citys parking system consists of 2,268
metered parking stalls, seven surfacelots
containing 364 parking stalls, and a residential
parking program with eight zones spanningfrom
the South Capitol Campus neighborhood to the
Port of Olympia. In addition, there are anumber
of private lots spread throughout downtown that
function as part of the downtown parkingsystem.
The City would like to ensure that the parking
system is being operated, managed anddeveloped
in a manner that helps to implement the Citys
Adopted Comprehensive Plan and its
goalincreasing the downtown population by 5,000
people over the next 20 years. The City has
aconcurrent planning process underway called the
Downtown Strategy. The parking strategy needsto
mesh with this work as well.The Parking system
is operated as an enterprise fund and is
operated in manner that provides forcost
recovery for operations of the system and
investment in capital improvements that benefit
thesystem on a long-term basis. All
recommendations developed by the consultant
should beevaluated for financial, operational
and community impacts.Parking related issues
that the City needs assistance in evaluating
include: Demand pricing for on-street parking,
City owned parking lots, and load zones, Parking
supply including an assessment of City-owned
surface lots, on-street stalls, andprivately
owned surface lots including the conversion of
parking lots to other uses, Shared use of
existing privately owned parking structures and
lots, including state-ownedfacilities on the
Capitol Campus, Need for a parking structure or
structures including identifying options for
siting andfinancing such a facility,